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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by d_burfoot on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:04PM (#25530342)
Is McCarthy hyped...? I read Blood Meridian because a pretentious literature/philosophy snob I knew in college told me it was good. I was also pretentious, so I read it. Other than that, I've almost never heard anyone talk about his work, other than briefly when the movies came out.
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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by redisman on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:18PM (#25532003)
He was for a bit with a Oprah book of the month (the road) and no country for old men getting made into a movie
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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by muststopmyths on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:41PM (#25530724)
hmm, good question. I guess I'd heard for a while that he was one of the best writers out there. Maybe he's just hyped in the corners of the internet that I wander.
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